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History in a Nutshell What happened in the Neolithic, you ask? Well, the period lasted for nearly 2,000 years in Britain, so it’s a pretty safe bet to say that loads happened. Loads and loads and loads. The trouble is, we just don’t know about most of it. Because the people of this period didn’t …

An epidemic is a disease that can be spread from person to person and affects many individuals all at the same time in a location where the disease is not permanently prevalent. A pandemic is like an epidemic, but is much larger in scale. Pandemics can affect whole countries, continents, and sometimes even the entire …

The name Cassius Clay is most widely known as the birth name of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali. Ali took his new name in 1962 and announced he would no longer answer to what he called his slave name. The move would ironically establish his image as a fearless crusader for civil rights and equality. Why …

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This is an Epic History TV / Simple History collaboration, supported by our sponsor, The Great Courses Plus. In the 1560s and ’70s Protestant England, under Queen Elizabeth… was the bitter rival of Philip II’s Catholic Spain. Philip ruled over a vast New World empire, that produced a fortune in gold and silver for the …

[MUSIC PLAYING] When we think of knights during the medieval times, we think of valiant men who chose to defend their honor in feats of jousting, chivalry, and dragon slaying. But that’s not exactly how it was for the actual knights. Jousting wasn’t always a part of the culture of being a knight. Chivalry was …